Year end

Closing Down Your Therapy Space the Right Way

Picture it: it's late August/ early September, you've just walked back into your therapy room after 8 weeks away, and you immediately become furious with the version of yourself who left it that way. Here are the five moves we make before we leave for summer. None of them require a Pinterest board.

Shontaye Jones

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Closing Down Your Therapy Space the Right Way
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Picture it: it's late August/ early September, you've just walked back into your therapy room after 8 weeks away, and you immediately become furious with the version of yourself who left it that way.

Sound familiar?

Crumpled card decks. A half-eaten box of fish crackers fossilized to the shelf. Sticky notes with assessment scores you can no longer interpret. The good visuals you spent hours laminating in April are somewhere - but where?

Give future-you a gift. Spend two hours doing this right.

Here are the five moves we make before we leave for summer. None of them require a Pinterest board.

1. Triage the materials, ruthlessly

Walk through every shelf, bin, and drawer. Three piles only:

  • Keep: used it this year, will use it again
  • Donate or pass on: useful, not for your current caseload
  • Toss: broken, missing pieces, no longer evidence-based, or you bought it in 2019 and have never opened the box

And be honest. The sentimental value of the worksheet pack you used your first year is not worth the shelf space.

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